Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-24
THE QUEEN CITY.
The Gszette's Pilgrim in the Thriving
Yeung City
The Quiet Ola Town Transformed Into a
FIOurishing Metropolls-The Soil, Gil
mate and Public EnterpriGes.
Business Notes,
Special Correspondence Of the Gazette.

Special Correspondence of the Gazette.
PARIS, TEX, April 22-The Journalistic
pilgrim whose wanderings lead him from
town to town throughout Texas becomes
so accustomed TO the changes which take
place between the period of his visits that
he pays but little attention to what in
older states would be considered phe-
nomenal improvements. 1t is only the
abnormal growth of cities or towns that
attracts his attention and gives him what
he considers an item worthy of note. One
of these cities of wonderful growth IS
Paris. A yesr ago the passenger slight-
ing at the solitary depot could have seen
3 quiet, sleepy-lOoking old country town,
That, like a country baron in the
O!den time, was perfectly satisfied
with itself, and regarded with
suspicious apprehension any innovation
on The old regime, or any movement for
ward in advance of the staid and very re
spectacle pace at which it had been Jog
gins since the day when the sturdy piO-
neers huddled themselves together in
hamlet for protection against hostile In
dians. All is changed now. AL is
changing Gsily. The one railroad no
longer has monopoly of the traffic and
travel. In the short space of one year
twelve competing lines have sought for
and obtained permission TO en- er the
favored precincts Of the city. Among
these the Paris and Great Northern, the
Marshall, Paris and Northwestern, the
Houston and Texas Central, the Gulf,
Colorado and Santa Fe and the St. Louis
and San Francisco are either completed
or are nearing completion, which, with
the TransCOnunental, the first line built,
make six railroads assured. The other
roads which have secured charters to this
place and will De here in g tWelvemOntn
are the Kansas and Texas Air Line. the
Texas Air Line, road projected by Gal
weston capitalists, the St. Louis, ATkan-
sas and Texas, the Fort Worth extension
Of the Frisco, the 81. Louis extension of
the Santa Fe, the Memphis and Little
Rock, via Hot Springs, Ark, and the
CaddO coal fields extension of the Paris
and Great Northern, making seven more,
railroads which, in all human probability,
will be completed before April, 1888.
Whist has caused al these roads to cen
ter on Paris? The same reason which
induced many of them TO secure cOunec-
tons with Fort Worth Our people had
and, ia matters of public enterprise "a
financial solidarity which was irresistible.
As TO the natural attractions Of this city
and country, VIII quote from q gifted
Bohemian VINO has recently Written their
praises: "The Nile does not surpass the
Red river in fertility; besides which the
contiguous territory both north and south
is as productive as the richest garden
spots Of Illinois, Iowa, Missouri or Kansas.
In the midst ofthis section Paris is stu
ated. Until within one year ago she was
apparently content with one line Of rail-
road (the TranscontinentaD, and her To-
cal cotton trade reaching $4,000 bales per
year, but when the Frisco pointed its
ward Texas and made Paris its
IT. minus there was a great awsk-
ris leaped into life and activ-
r vent of the Frisco makes
truly the gateway to an empire,
ger and more wealthy than that ruled